I found more on the Great Catfish Namazu that Pat Robertson still doesn't know. This is not an ordinary earthquake Pat.

The Great Catfish Namazu, he who causes all earthquakes and tidal waves and carries Japan on his back, was bombed during WW II and has since mutated. Yes, according to some legends he is now known as Godzilla.

A good grad school essay on The Great Catfish Art Craze in 1850 Japan and its psychological impact in mediating the cultural clash of East and West.

>> Every year, there is a civil defense exercise in our neighborhood. Emergency routes are marked by a big catfish. According to Japanese lore, the Namazu, a giant catfish, lives beneath the earth and causes the quakes. In more modern times, the fish turned into a kawaii animal that supposedly can predict quakes.

These quakes have been caused by the Imperialist war-monger, the United States, dropping two atomic bombs on the innocent people of Japan, thus damaging the tectonic plates and causing the ring of fire in the Pacific.
Sorry, but I'm sure somebody wants to blame us for this...

@Cynical: I live pretty close to the Seabrook nuclear power plant. (You'd think we'd have dirt-cheap electric rates, wouldn't you? But we don't. They probably sell most of the electricity to MA, where the real jobs are.) While New England is geologically stable compared to other places, it still has earthquakes. The most recent was last September, centered somewhere north of Concord, NH. At the beginning of the year I received in my mailbox a lengthy description of an emergency evacuation plan. The "plan" is--don't take your car, go out to Route 1 and wait for the bus. Yeah, right. I'd sooner strike out on foot. I'm going to have to figure out some kind of wheeled carrier, or a backpack, for the cat.

Here's Gus diZerega's reflection on the disaster.

"There are other lessons we can take from this disaster.

"It offers a deep corrective to human pride. Yes, human creativity and energy have transformed the world, sometimes in very good ways. But when this energy is dominated by pride and a feeling of power, it is brought particularly low when events demonstrate that even our greatest constructions are so much dust in the wind. "